Just got back from watching JW.Stream presentation at our local KH of a 'special' meeting at Ursus assembly hall in Warsaw. All the congs in the country were tied in, but some will be watching replay later in the day. There were 3 parts. First, 30 minute sales rally for the team describing work accomplished in the last year and an upcoming campaign in August that will be 'historic' in its scope. Related to 100 year anniversary, oh joy! Not a single scripture read or quoted in this part.
Next of course was WT summary. This week sounded like more encouragement for young people to pioneer after basic school completed. Wasn't really paying attention. Some cong's even moved their Sunday meeting to Saturday so they got a full WT study on Saturday and then review on Sunday.
The big show was Mr. David Splane. He did pretty well. First time I have seen him live. Didn't seem like he used notes at all, but at then end I saw that he did have them. The theme was 'Your will be done'. Main focus was on Paul's thorn in the flesh and how he didn't let that stop him, so nothing should really stop us either. Nothing bizarre or strange to report. Pretty much another snore-fest. The Polish brothers seemed incredibly excited. The chairman was almost ecstatic in joy. Splane did mention that on Saturday he had been out in service with the host family he was staying with and that later his wife did some informal witnessing (in French) at a kebab restaurant during lunch. She had some card she gave the owner that directed him to jw.org.
Did get to see a sign-language group in the audience 'singing'. That was about the most exciting thing. 4 more hours of my life gone, but it did make my wife happy. Got the 'nice to see you again' from most of the friends. Same couple of people totally ignored me, even thought they were directly in front of me making field service arrangements for next week with my wife. It was like I was invisible. People were reaching around her to say hello, but nothing distracted her from her mission of getting her schedule filled for the next week.
...OUTLAW